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My ext4 disk crashed and I'm using ddrescue to try to rescue it. However the crashed disk is 3tb, and I only have another 3tb drive for the image file. I assumed that this image file will be too big ...

While accessing a drive with high error rates (as, for example, here for opensuse) in FreeBSD, the system eventually disconnects the drive and it disappears from /dev. This makes it impossible to run ...

In the course of trying to recover data from a failing hard drive, I am running the command ddrescue.
The command has been running for 9 days, and I thought from the sound of disk activity that maybe ...

I'm using ddrescue to make an image of a faulty harddrive. I followed a tutorial that used the -r3 and logfile option.
After a few hours, the tool made one pass and tried to read the bad sectors on ...

What rescue disk (rescue CD/DVD) would you recommend for an user which unfortunately needs to rescue data from a bad disk (filesystems does not mount when using LiveCD, though fdisk looks O.K.) for a ...

Yesterday I performed a hard-reset while Linux was booting. This led to a hard issue with the HDD (UNC while recovering journal). I had to use ddrescue instead of dd because dd crashed on I/O error.
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Before imaging the corrupted filesystem to a file on another hard drive, I decided to dry-run ddrescue (throwing rescued output to /dev/null) just to see how much data is unreadable:
# ddrescue -d -b ...